Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old sling bullet with a sarcastic message, shedding light on the witty and brutal ...

A new exhibit showcases Native American artifacts at the Washington City Historical Museum in Washington County.

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

What began as a normal day at the dig quickly turned into a rush of real artifact finds. Ancient points, flakes, and worked ...

A hiker’s unexpected find of a 3,000-year-old bronze bull sculpture in Mallorca has the potential to reshape our ...

For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...

This segment opens with the kind of start every artifact hunter hopes for. Before the dig even fully gets going, a simple ...

The infiltration of Marxism into archaeology threatens the pursuit of knowledge, as evidenced by the University of Tennessee’s removal of displays about Native American cultures.

Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable testament to ancient global connections in Egypt's famed Valley of the Kings. Around 30 inscriptions written in ancient Indian languages have been identified ...